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The Irish Naturalist. 



April, 



ZOOLOGY. 



Long^itarsus castaneus, Duft. — a Correction. 



On re-examining the specimen recorded by me under this name in 

 the Irish Naturalist, vol. xx., 191 1, p. 139, I find that it is an example 

 of the common L. luridus. Scop. 



G. W. Nicholson. 



London. 



COLEOPTERA FROM COUNTY CAVAN. 



BY G. W. NICHOLSON, M.D. 



I FIND that I have omitted to record the capture, at 

 Cloverhill, of the following species, three of which are 

 additions to the Irish list : — 



Atheta basicornis, Key. (nec autumnalis, Er.). — A pair under pine bark, 

 September 14, 1913. 



A. pallidicornis, Th. {humeralis, Kr.). — A female at the sap of a wounded 

 oak, July 1, 1916. As this species, according to Canon Fowler, is 

 very rare, and as I take it commonly in Herts, Cambs, and Essex, 

 I sent some of my specimens, including the Irish one, to Dr. Cameron 

 for confirmation. This he has kindly done. A. pallidicornis is a 

 somewhat brightly coloured insect, whose elytra are reddish with 

 dark scutellary and marginal patches. It differs from all the species 

 of the sub-genus Atheta, s. str., except sodalis, Er. (whose wing cases 

 are of a uniform dark brown tint) in the marked sinuation of the 

 posterior angles of the elytra. 



Calodera riparia, Er. — One specimen in damj) moss, September 19, 1918. 



Pterostichus aterrimus, Pk. — On August 1918, 1 at last found another 

 fcm.dc of this species, under a piece of wood on the mud, close to 

 where I had caught one in 1913 {Irish Naturalist, loi.j, xxiii., p. 68). 



Agaricochara laevicollis, Kr. — This recent addition to the Irish list 

 (Bullock, Irish Naturalist, 1914, xxiii., p. 105) was turned up sparingly 

 in a Polyporus on September 13, 1913. 



Oxford and (■aml)ridgc Club, London, S.W. 



